Introduction : interpretive engagement in Morocco and Mexico -- Discretionary state seeing : emigration policy in Morocco and Mexico until 1963 -- Reaching out : beginning a conversation with Moroccan emigrants, 1963-1973 -- Relational awareness and controlling relationships : Moroccan state...

Regulation : how the politics of skill become law -- Production : how skill makes cities -- Skill : how skill is embodied and what it means for the control of bodies -- Protest : how skillful practice becomes resistance -- Body : how definitions of skill cause injury -- Earth : how the politics...

Knowledge flows associated with international migration and their relationship to economic development have garnered increasing attention. Regardless of whether these accounts focus on "brain drain," "gain" or "circulation," they tend to focus narrowly on knowledge acquired through formal...

The impact that remittances – the monies that migrants send home – have on the development on migrant-sending economies is a matter of considerable debate. This essay presents the case of Morocco and its state-controlled bank, La Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP), to argue that the major...

This paper critically examines the portrayal of hometown associations (HTAs) formed by Mexican migrants as separate from the state institutions with which they interact. I argue instead that Mexican HTAs are social fields in which multiple actors negotiate both new expressions of transnational...